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Christian Toto describes Hollywood's descent into dreary, dull, leftist groupthink. This book shows the slow-motion disaster infiltrating the industry, and offers a glimmer of hope for a woke-free tomorrow.

When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In this book, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race and opportunity that defined his season on The Bachelor. Matt lives at the intersection of these important issues and shares the wisdom his experience has granted him.

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day.

We Made It All Up is the story of Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton's longest-running improv company. Since 1981 it's sent countless audiences into fits of laughter, vaulted a few actors to Hollywood, survived embezzlement, and emerged as a leading force in spontaneity. We Made It All Up details that trajectory with more than 70 interviews with players, alumni, and more, showing how the company became an acclaimed jewel in the global improv scene.

This collection of stories with music and sound effects features holiday tales for both young and old.

Selected episodes from the classic radio program.

The Ozzie and Harriet radio show starred Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their sons, David and Ricky along with their fictitious neighbor, "Thorny".  This family-friendly, fun, and entertaining program launched October 8, 1944 and ran until June 18, 1954. In total 402 radio episodes were produced.  Relive the "good old days" with 30 episodes of this classic radio sitcom.

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportions. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age. This is a collection of 16 original half-hour radio broadcasts featuring female characters.

Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Andrew McCarthy shares an intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.

Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. "Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941," Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, "Greta Garbo is in people's minds, hearts, and dreams." Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate America's subconscious; her decision to suddenly end her film career at the age of thirty-six only made her more irresistible.